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...Kaiser Steel Corp. has just added an eighth open-hearth furnace to boost ingot capacity to 1,380,000 tons...
...N.M.U., the Marine Engineers and the American Radio Association (ships' radio operators) wanted their new contracts to show a 25% wage boost (the shipowners were offering 10%), a 40-hour work week at sea instead of the present 48-hour week, a company-financed kitty of 50? per man a day for vacation allowances. By this week, at least 36,500 men were on the beach, no-sail notices were posted in every major U.S. port. The way things were going, nearly half the U.S. merchant fleet would be tied...
...bill made scant effort to dry up excess spending power-the biggest source of inflationary pressure-with heavier excise taxes on consumer goods. It provided only a $1.3 billion boost in excise taxes, v, the $3 billion the Treasury had sought. In boosting income taxes, the committee tailored its formula to favor the lower-income groups, although Treasury Secretary John Snyder had said the biggest boost should be made there. The bill...
Reason for the A.M.A.'s renewed interest in an old problem: military and industrial mobilization, which always gives prostitution a boost...
WAGES & SALARIES The Wage Stabilization Board, which violated its own 10% limit on raises by approving bigger boosts for railroad and meat-packing workers (TIME, May 28), last week punched a gaping hole in the ceiling for 1,000,000 U.S. autoworkers. It okayed a 4?-an-hour boost, for "increased productivity," in most C.I.O.-U.A.W. autoworkers' contracts. Coupled with the 3?-an-hour cost-of-living raise last month, average auto wages were now up to $1.93 an hour, 12% above WSB's January 1950 base period. WSB also ruled that the productivity increase could...